tom permutt Wrote: > Gildahl makes some excellent points. It can be nearly as easy as > playing the records, and it may be cost-effective to do this kind of > casual job on the least important things in your collection, buy CDs of > a middle tier that you want in better quality, and go fanatic on the > irreplaceable treasures. > > It gets seductive, though. While you are looking at the waveforms in > Audacity, you will see some obvious, strange peaks. You will listen > and find that they correspond to pops. Of course, the pops were there > when you played the record, and you didn't mind so much, but what if > ... You zoom in and find they last about a millisecond, and the > listening is a little better without that millisecond than with. Now > you're on the slippery slope down to the abyss of audio restoration > addiction.
I follow two general rules when I rip my LPs. 1. I vow not to do any kind of pop/click cleaning when initially ripping my collection (except very, very, minor things). This avoids the slippery slope you talk about. The theory is that if you store the final file in a lossless format (which we all do, right?), you can always do this later. This (a) avoids slowing the ripping process and causing frustration, and (b) future-proofs you in a way, since you can treat the initial rip as your "raw" file, and improve on it as future software improvements are made for audio processing. 2. I stack rank my albums before ripping. I realize this sounds obvious, but make sure your favorite/cleanest albums are ripped first. This ensures that your favorite tunes are available soonest, and also saves wear and tear on your needle until you hit the dirty stuff at the bottom of the pile. Dave -- Gildahl ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gildahl's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4102 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21836 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
